Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and Interviews

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Claim to Oblivion: Selected Essays and InterviewsThis is where Tarnawsky explains himself in his own prose, the closest thing he wrote to a statement of method. The pieces open onto specific puzzles. Who is the boy at the start of Bergman's Persona? What are the near silent seven minutes at the end of Antonioni's L'Eclisse for? What happens if you break the rules Shklovsky thought prose was built on, or rewrite The Great Gatsby in ultra short sentences? He turns the same scrutiny on his own work,

bending their separate voices toward his own motive

and that shows you how literature might (must

Afterimage and Writing Pictures

Tarnawsky described his writing to The Collidescope as "akin to proving a theorem

takes news reports

The Island of Dr

and the conversation between immigrant interior and Manhattan exterior is what the prose is

established voices

Mary Norton's The Borrowers

" That is the cycle's governing method taken further: the city rendered from inside a single consciousness

is accurate but "perhaps a trifle academic"

In her essay "A Lot and A Little: The Psychic Fragmentation of Intergenerational Trauma in Denis Emorine's Broken Identities